Outlast: alternatives and connections

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Outlast

To exceed in duration; to survive; to endure longer than.

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Be 76% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Live 76% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Be 72% connected

To exist actually, or in the world of fact; to have ex/stence.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Live 72% connected

To be alive; to have life; to have, as an animal or a plant, the capacity of assimilating matter as food, and to be dependent on such assimilation fo…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Outlive 92% connected

To live beyond, or longer than; to survive.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Survive 92% connected

To live beyond the life or existence of; to live longer than; to outlive; to outlast; as, to survive a person or an event.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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